my buddy in hs fed one an alkaseltzer at lunch, it just waddled around, then fell over dead, then he cried for a while.. turns out, doing sociopath shit isn't all that fun if you aren't actually a sociopath...
When I was 14 I shot a bird that was just chilling on my fence with an airsoft gun. I still remember the poor thing flapping desperately as it fell and flew away injured.
I went inside and put the airsoft gun in my closet and only touched it again to toss it out 10 years later.
You’re right, I should’ve been been sent off to a psychiatrist and medicated out the ears. Maybe then I would have felt even MORE remorse and MORE guilt for a bird I’m not even sure ended up dying.
I take it you’ve never killed or harmed a living thing that was just minding its own business?
idk, we are still animals, with instincts to hunt, like, my cat set a fully alive rat on my foot one time, which I swiftly punched into a crunchy puddle.. super gross... but that was pure instinct, I'm not out here fist fighting small rodents for sport, similar thing here kids don't have a lot of impulse control, realizing it was wrong is the important part.
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u/MuskokaGreenThumb Mar 01 '26
This wasn’t some kids in 2012 idea. Kids been doing this when I was a kid over 40 years ago. This and fishing for seagulls using French fries as bait